I consider myself a fairly sophisticated if amateur thinker on theological/religious issues. My gentle readers all know that I have tried and practiced multiple paths of the spirit, sometimes more than one at a time. But I *just* figured out something so obvious that once it hit me, it was like Homer Simpson suddenly attaining [...]
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Well, duh
Posted in Buddhism, Christianity, the work, tagged Buddhism, charles williams, Christianity, dedication of merit, dharma, exchange, mahayana on October 22, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Names, teachers, images, and the Work
Posted in Adepthood, Buddhism, Christianity, Druidry, Inner Work, Paganism, Witchcraft and Wicca, the great work, the work, tagged kissing the limitless, thorn coyle on April 24, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I was baptized Methodist and confirmed Episcopalian. I discovered paganism when The Spiral Dance was published and waffled back and forth between Christian and pagan for the better part of twenty years, until I began practicing a form of Hermetic magic that pointed me to Buddhism, and I took refuge.
I am an Anglican, a Druid, a witch, [...]
The view from the hermit shack
Posted in Buddhism, Christianity, Druidry, Inner Work, the great work, the work, transformations, tagged national library week, seasons, thorn coyle on April 14, 2009 | 2 Comments »
There is a large chessboard laid out on the floor in the central court of the library where I work. The chess pieces are three or four feet high. Two men are playing a game, while a couple of others stand watching. I think this is for National Library Week.
I keep reading on our local weather [...]
More Hedwig music for you
Posted in Film and Pop Culture, Music and Musicians, the work, tagged hedwig and the angry inch, music, plato, symposium, Videos on February 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Here’s my other favorite song from Hedwig and the Angry Inch. What other rock musical has a song based on a myth from Plato’s Symposium?
Wendell Berry does it for me again
Posted in Poetry, the work, tagged Poetry, wendell berry on January 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
VII
by Wendell Berry
I would not have been a poet
except that I have been in love
alive in this mortal world,
or an essayist except that I
have been bewildered and afraid,
or a storyteller had I not heard
stories passing to me through the air,
or a writer at all except
I have been wakeful at night
and words have come to me
out [...]
Confessions of a choirgirl
Posted in Christianity, the work, tagged choir, music on December 15, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The first time I sang in a church choir, I was six or seven years old. I was going to a Lutheran church at the time, the same church where my sister had gone and where she had been confirmed. I was actually younger than the minimum age requirement, but they let me join anyway; [...]
Words of good counsel
Posted in Quotes, Witchcraft and Wicca, Writers and Writing, the work, tagged feri, Quotes, thorn coyle on November 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I came back from lunch to find this entry on Livejournal from Feri witch Thorn Coyle:
Note to Self:
Do not believe anything – even personal revelation – that you have not brought into your practice.
Do not believe anything – even sacred text – that you have not brought into your practice.
Practice changes us. Practice gives us [...]
Remembering Little Gidding
Posted in Christianity, Paganism, Poetry, Quotes, the work, tagged church, community, contemplation, little gidding, prayer, t.s. eliot on November 26, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Midwinter spring is its own season
Sempiternal though sodden towards sundown,
Suspended in time, between pole and tropic.
When the short day is brightest, with frost and fire,
The brief sun flames the ice, on pond and ditches,
In windless cold that is the heart’s heat,
Reflecting in a watery mirror
A glare that is blindness in the early afternoon.
And glow [...]
A little joy worth celebrating
Posted in the work, tagged food on November 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The sight and smell of a freshly cut onion, frying in olive oil in a heavy cast-iron skillet.
Ah!
A word: The voice of the Druid
Posted in Druidry, the work, tagged maxims on November 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This has been given to me, and so I will say it:
The voice of the Druid is to say that the gods, the land, and the people are One.
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